Things that don't add up.  Causes that don't match effects.  And other reasons to scratch my head.

When a number of obvious contradictions pop up all at once, sometimes I wonder if the Cosmos is trying to tell me something.  Probably, but what?  Maybe when I'm completely out of the migraine zone things will make more sense.

On one forum where I participate, there's a subforum where Christians and non-Christians can discuss and debate.  Since the overall forum is Christian and the moderators are Christian, I kind of expect disputes to go certain ways and they generally do.  But today, something kind of odd, even for this odd place, occurred.  A Christian asked non-Christian members if they also participate on non-Christian boards.  He wanted to know if Christians are treated on those boards much the way non-Christians are treated on the forum in question.  He said something about wanting to find out for himself if "it's true", what ever "it" is.

I have the highest regard for a great many members of this board.  But there are always a few troublemakers.  The size of this forum means that a statistically few troublemakers = numerical significance.

Even though the OP may be completely genuine and honest in asking the question, the board has its share of intolerant people who try to pick fights.  I wouldn't dream of putting a link to one of the pagan boards I follow over there.  These small communities don't need an influx of people with chips on their shoulders and judgement in their words throwing fire and brimstone right and left.  There might be any number of the benignly curious who would also visit.  But given that the OP's question was about how Christians are treated on non-Christian boards, caution was justified.

Not everyone was cautious though.  And here's the interesting part of the story.  A moderator deleted all the links to non-Christian forums that were posted, saying that non-Christian religions were being "promoted".

Hmm...the OP ASKS for info about non-Christian online communities so he can check them out, and the people who respond are "promoting" their non-Christian faiths.  Interestingly, the OP wasn't edited and the request still stands.

Double standard?  Apparently.

On a completely different forum, a new member joined and posted a reply to a loooong thread.  The thread is one of the few specifically dedicated to non-Christians, though many Christians post on it (and are more than welcome to do so if they don't actively proselytize).  This new member was shocked that people would feel the need to have "their own thread", like they wouldn't be welcome elsewhere on the forum, among all the "Christian Content" daily devotional threads, etc.  Right now there are a number of multi-faith discussions going on, but sometimes that long old thread is the only apparent activity outside the devotionals.  Some of the members who essentially are Christian but feel uncomfortable around the more judgemental made some comments to that effect in defense(?) of their participation.

This created an incredible chain reaction.  One of the most fundamentalist members turned the "judgemental" word completely around and complained that the free speech of all other religions is preserved, but Christians are not welcome to discuss their own beliefs in today's society.   The last of the religious victims or something.  Later in the thread, he posted a long list of verses that apparently contradict "Judge not lest ye be judged".  I'd have to take his word that's what they mean, because I see the same verses discussed quite vigorously among the faithful.  It seems the jury is out regarding their meaning.  The juxtaposition of his earlier statement and this "license to judge" was humorous.

So, all this time I spend on religious forums trying to better understand the viewpoints of people who are not like me, and I'm still sorting out the most basic contradictions in both actions and in dogma and doctrine.

Is the Cosmos telling me to get a life?  Is Eris having a little fun with me?  Food for thought.